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Scott Adams, cartoonist and author and creator of "Dilbert", poses for a portrait in his home office on Monday, January 6, 2014  in Pleasanton, Calif. (Photo By Lea Suzuki/Getty Images)

"Dilbert" comic creator dies

Jelinda Montes

Scott Adams’ extremely successful newspaper comic fell out of favor following racist comments from the cartoonist

Michael B. Jordan and Julia Roberts at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Michael Buckner/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images)

The Golden Globes don't care about film

Coleman Spilde

The show itself was a mess, but seeing artists champion their work provided rare, vital bright spots

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 02: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (R) looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. A bipartisan Congressional investigation has begun regarding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's role in ordering U.S. military strikes on small boats in the waters off Venezuela that have killed scores of people, which Hegseth said are intended "to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.” (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Plane disguised in strike a "war crime"

Jelinda Montes

The US may have committed a crime by using an aircraft disguised as a civilian plane in Caribbean boat strike

Justin Townes Earle (Da Capo)

Music books that tell the hard parts

Caryn Rose

From radio legend Mary Lucia to Justin Townes Earle, these books examine the price worth paying for a creative life

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Fried chicken at His Place Eatery (Jodyann Morgan)

The pleasure of eating in Indianapolis

Chaya Milchtein

From perfect fried chicken to white-tablecloth tasting menus, a slow week spent eating and playing in Indianapolis

All I've been craving recently are old-school hippie bowls (Ashlie Stevens )

You deserve better than a slop bowl

Ashlie D. Stevens

Bright grains, spiced chickpeas, fresh greens — a bowl that tastes like someone cared

An "ICE Out for Good" protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE's threat was there from the start

Heather Digby Parton

"Homeland security" has become the repressive domestic police force we were warned about

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s hall of mirrors presidency

Chauncey DeVega

From Jan. 6 to Venezuela, Trump has created his own reality and it threatens to subsume our own

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A Palestinian man walks on his crutches to the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on new year's Eve, December 31, 2025. Israel has said 37 aid organisations will be banned from operating in Gaza from January 1, 2026, unless they comply with guidelines requiring detailed information on Palestinian staff, drawing criticism from the United Nations and the European Union. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza aid groups work amid Israel's ban

Nicholas Liu

If aid groups don't submit detailed lists of their staff members by March, they will be evicted — perhaps violently

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) speaks during the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on December 03, 2024 in Washington, DC.  This year's tree is an 80-foot Sitka spruce from the Wrangell District Region in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Can Mary Peltola flip Alaska?

Grace Panetta - The 19th

Peltola was the first Alaska Native elected to Congress. She's challenging GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to press before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kelly sues Hegseth, Pentagon

Alex Galbraith

The senator and veteran asked a judge to block a possible punishment from the Department of Defense

NOVEMBER 30: ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One en-route to Washington, DC on November 30, 2025. The first family is returning to Washington, DC after spending the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at his Mar-A-Lago Resort In Florida.  (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Machado can't share Nobel with Trump

Garrett Owen

The Nobel Institute put the kibosh on tentative plans for the Venezuelan opposition leader to share her prize

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Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Civil rights "hurt" white men

Garrett Owen

Trump's comments reflect his administration's dismantling of all things DEI-related

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell talks to President Donald Trump as they tour the Federal Reserve’s renovation project on July 24, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fed chair turns whistleblower on Trump

Sophia Tesfaye

The Justice Department's legal action against Powell for maintaining Fed independence could backfire on Trump

Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on November 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Powell hit with criminal case from Trump

Garrett Owen

Trump says he doesn't "know anything" about the case, while Powell calls it "intimidation"

Nikki Glaser at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Nikki Glaser is the Globes' safest bet

Melanie McFarland

While the comic kept the show light in these heavy times, the show's lack of integrity makes us question its worth

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Memorial service in memory of Renee Good at the Minnesota State Capitol (Seth Herald/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE’s misogyny is the point

Andi Zeisler

The words of the man who shot Renee Good speak to the Trump administration's fixation on masculinity

Barron Trump waves during an indoor inauguration parade on Jan. 20, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump

Amanda Marcotte

The right desperately wants the youngest Trump son to be a sex symbol

(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Hannah Beier / Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto )

Postmark changes risk election chaos

Russell Payne

A seemingly minor change could have huge ripple effects for rural and military voters

Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How SpaceX rockets put planes at risk

Heather Vogell, Agnel Philip - ProPublica

Pilots and passengers are unwitting participants in SpaceX’s test of the most powerful rocket ever built

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US actor Mark Ruffalo US wears a pin reading "be Good", in tribute to Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, as she attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 11, 2026. (Photo by Michael Tran/Getty Images)

Celebs honor Good, protest ICE at Globes

Alex Galbraith

Simple pins worn on the red carpet voiced objections to the killing of Renee Good

Host Nikki Glaser attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images)

The 2026 Golden Globes winners list

Alex Galbraith

All the exciting wins and surprising losses from the first big awards show of the year

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

GOP saber-rattles over Cuba

Alex Galbraith

The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened military action on the island

A woman speaks into a small microphone on the red carpet before the German Film Awards ceremony. The Lola is one of the most important awards in the industry. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Teeny tiny mics ruin the red carpet

Coleman Spilde

Throw them in the trash, along with the rest of these empty promotional gimmicks and crass cash grabs

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